Weekend update: Fred and Ted show to fill KILT late-night hole, J.J. Watt featured on ESPN2 show Monday night with Hannah Storm

– Barry Warner’s late-night slot on KILT (610 AM) will be filled during football season by Fred David and Ted Johnson, whose nighttime show will be pushed later into the evening behind the team-controlled “Texans Radio” broadcasts. KILT will have Monday and Thursday night NFL game broadcasts, so Davis and Johnson will work until midnight Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

– The General, John McClain, is embarking on his 29th year on local radio. He will appear five times weekly on KILT at 8:30 a.m. Mondays, 7:30 a.m. Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Thursdays, 4:30 p.m. Fridays and 45 minutes before kickoff on game days.

– Looking ahead to next week, Texans defensive lineman J.J. Watt will be among the players profiled on “NFL Face to Face with Hannah Storm” at 6 p.m. Monday on ESPN2. Other subjects include 49ers tight end Vernon Davis, Packers linebacker Clay Matthews and Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson.

– The Dallas Cowboys are back on Houston radio – some of the time, at least. As part of their secondary market affiliation with Compass Media Networks, the Cowboys are now offering their games to areas outside the boundaries of their traditional Cowboys radio network.

Accordingly, Compass’ Cowboys games will be available in time slots when they do not conflict with Texans games. NFL rules allow each team market exclusivity in its home territory for both home and away games, so the Compass games can air in Houston only when, for example, the Cowboys have a 3 p.m. game and the Texans a noon game, or vice versa.

Those games, when available, will air on KFNC (97.5 FM) and KDOL (96.1 FM) in Livingston. Kevin Burkhardt works the Compass games with former Cowboys quarterback Danny White.

– While Houston radio has had recent drama with the departures of Matt Jackson and Adam Wexler at KBME (790 AM) and Barry Warner at KILT, there’s also considerable drama at the other end of I-45.

Randy Galloway, the longtime newspaper columnist who has hosted shows on Dallas-Fort Worth radio since the late 1980s, says he will leave his show on ESPN Radio’s KESN-FM at year’s end.

“I told the ESPN people, both (national) and local, over a year ago that I was retiring at the end of this current contract, which is Dec. 31,” Galloway told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “I want to give them plenty of notice to get a replacement in place. So there’s now basically five months to go on the contract. And nothing has changed about my plans to retire.”

Galloway, who joined the Star-Telegram from The Dallas Morning News in 1998, did not address his plans for his newspaper career.

– More big news from D-FW: ESPN has reached an agreement with Cumulus Media for Cumulus to operate KESN in D-FW. ESPN will continue to own the station, but Cumulus, which has eight other stations in D-FW, will handle day to day operations. That has led to speculation that Cumulus, which owns sports radio blowtorch KTCK, aka “The Ticket,” could switch its local programming to the FM side and, theoretically, expand its market share even further. Could spell tough times for Gavin Spittle, the former KILT program director who heads up CBS Radio’s KRLD-FM all-sports station.

– The CBS vs. Time Warner Cable carriage dispute continues without a resolution as of Friday afternoon, meaning that viewers in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas-Fort Worth, Boston and Denver will be unable to watch the PGA Championship this weekend. The only good retransmission fight is a retransmission fight that doesn’t include your area. They can be a real pain.

– Comcast SportsNet Houston has picked up the championship and third-place games at the Texas Volleyball Invitational to be held later this month in Pearland. Thirty-three of the 79 teams in the tournament are from the Houston area. CSN Houston will air the tournament finale games on Aug. 17.

Also new on CSN Houston is “Houston Rockets: Legacy of Bigs,” a feature on Yao Ming, Clyde Drexler, Hakeem Olajuwon and Ralph Sampson discussing the team’s legacy of big men in the wake of the Dwight Howard signing. Bill Worrell hosts. Calvin Murphy, Rockets owner Leslie Alexander and Howard also appear. The show premiered Thursday and will air throughout the month. Bill Worrell is the host.